7 January 2018

Video Selfie in French language

One
of my
wishes for this year is to improve
my French language skills because I’ve already passed
A1 level of French language and I
want to apply for A2 level this year. Speaking Spanglish
and Frañol is already a fact for
me, I can do it, but when we have to speak a non-native language in a
meeting, webex or conference is a must to speak properly because if
we say “Relaxing
cup of café con leche”, maybe,
someone are going to laugh too much. Therefore, do
you need languages? Are you happy
studying languages? Because, although it’s a challenge, it’s also
rewarding when you realise you can speak with someone in other
language.

From time
to time, my friends ask me why I studied English language and why I’m
now studying French language. Actually, there are a lot of reasons
but I always tell the tipping point was 10 years ago when I went to
England for learning English language with a government grant and my
wallet was stolen in London. I didn’t have passport, I didn’t
have my ID, I didn’t know to speak English language, I didn’t
know how to return to Spain without my identification. My plane took
off the next day. I didn’t know what to do. It was my first trip
abroad. I was nervous. At the end, a Spanish boy helped me to go to
the police station to request a compliant. They allowed me to return
to Spain the next day.

Two years
later, I finished my studies at University and I started working as
IT engineer at Ariadnex where I realised most technologies
were made in EEUU thus technical guides were written in English
language. Nobody told me about the importance of English language
when I was at University. I remember the first weeks working as IT
engineer, I had to read technical guides of load
balancers. I didn’t understand anything. Therefore, I had
to start learning English language at Official School of Languages.

However,
today, I’m no longer studying English language but French language.
Why? First, because I studied French language at high school, second,
because French language is one of the main languages, along with
English and German languages, into the European Commission. Indeed,
there are lots of European Institutions in France and Belgium.

In fact,
you can watch my last speech for the Official School of Languages. I
have to improve. I know. This is my second year learning French
language but I think it’s no bad.